Subway Fresh Fit 500- Tomorrow Continues

Saturday night under the lights, the Car of Tomorrowyou ask me, the best CoT team so far has been Joe
gets its first shot at a track longer than a half-mile.Gibbs Racing. They clearly invested a lot of dough in
However, the one-mile Phoenix Internationalthese puppies, and it's showing. We'll see if that trend
Raceway is so shallowly banked -- 11 and ninecontinues Saturday night.
degrees in the turns -- that it drives like a smallerLast Week: It was a frustrating day deep in the
track than it is. In fact, the heavy-braking, flat trackheart of Texas, as our two primary picks, Johnson
is an awful lot like Martinsville, where the Smokelessand Stewart, suffered wrecks at the hands of other,
Set ran just a few weeks ago in these very sameless speedy drivers. Jeff Burton won the event and
CoTs. How very convenient.looked great doing it; he's going to be a threat at a
Who's been strongest in the CoT so far? Well, thewhole lot of races this summer. Anyway, it was a
temptation is to say Hendrick Motorsports. Kylelost day, which means 1.5 units down the tubes.
Busch won at Bristol, and Jimmie Johnson won atFortunately, we're still up 1.87 units on the season, on
Martinsville, with Jeff Gordon hot on his tail. But those10.5 units wagered, for a 17.8% return. (If you scrap
results don't tell the whole story. Tony Stewart easilythe conservative betting system outlined below and
had the best car at Bristol, and only a flukysimply bet one unit per wager, you'd be up 16.67
mechanical problem that had nothing to do with theunits so far this year on 28 units wagered, for a
CoT itself caused him to lose. At Martinsville, Dale59.5% return. Of course, there's a lot more risk on a
Earnhardt Jr. led the most laps and Stewart'sweekly basis with that system; for instance, you'd
teammate, Denny Hamlin, led the second-most. Ifhave dropped four units last week.